I'd be wary of hand glued. I"ve had at least 10 pairs of challenge CX tires and most of them had the tread peel off the casing in short order. Being active in the CX scene here, I've seen MANY other challenge tires fail from the tread coming off. Some times on the first ride. That might be a Challenge QC issue more so than the notion of hand-glued, but either way makes me nervous. I've never had any other tire do that.
On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 12:33:34 PM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > the Challenge are also hand-glued tires. I'm thinking the Somas will be > vulcanized tires with fine casings. If they're hand-glued, they would be > pretty amazing tires, IMO. > > On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 11:57:04 AM UTC-5, cyclot...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> With Challenge, the open tubular means the tires are super flat. They're >> great when mounted, but a bit of a bear to get mounted! >> >> On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 7:44:13 AM UTC-7, Kieran J wrote: >>> >>> These look great! Hopefully they won't be $80 a piece .. >>> >>> What does "tubular casing" mean? Like, 'open tubular' aka clincher? >>> >>> KJ >>> >>> >>> On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 10:26:25 AM UTC-4, Mark Reimer wrote: >>>> >>>> https://instagram.com/p/8mMR3jotbY/ >>>> >>>> Check out these new tires that just dropped from Soma! This is what >>>> I've been waiting for on my Atlantis, something like the 650x42 Compass >>>> tire but in 700. They've also got a 38mm version >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
